The Lechner Museum Ingolstadt is proud to host the upcoming workshop, “Storied [Art] Matter: Methodological Approaches across Material Engagement and Aesthetics,” taking place from 25 to 27 March 2026. This event emerges from the Art | Material Ecology working group and is organized by Kaja Ninnis and Ursula Ströbele. The workshop explores methodological experiments and alternative approaches to narrating material culture, focusing…
Call for Papers THE BLUE HUMANITIES Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir, Türkiye) May 20-23, 2026 Confirmed Keynote Speakers 2 more keynote speakers to be announced The Blue Humanities is a “current of thought” that challenges terracentric modes of knowing and envisions new ways of living with planetary waters in an era of ecological uncertainty.…
Call for Papers 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 20-22, 2024 Confirmed Keynote Speakers Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the “relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has “entered into fruitful interdisciplinary…
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls…
Published by West Virginia University Press in 2023, Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Serpil Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how…
Call for Papers Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 16-18, 2022 Confirmed Keynote Speakers: ▪ Paola Cavalieri (Etica & Animali; The Helsinki Group, www.cetaceanrights.org) (Online) ▪ Monica Gagliano (The University of Western Australia) (In-person) ▪ Douglas Vakoch (METI International) (In-person) There have been many…
Vol 11 No 2 (2020): 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond To mark Ecozon@’s tenth anniversary, we are presenting a larger issue than usual, entitled ‘2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond’. Its aim is to consolidate, and to celebrate, what hasbeen achieved over the last ten years through the collective efforts of the journal’s editors,…
In the BifrostOnline guest blog environmental humanities scholar Serpil Oppermann looks at fiction of human bioturbation and unpacks what we are beginning to understand about the risks involved in changing subterranean environments as we extract resources ever more aggressively.
Environmental Humanities Voices from the Anthropocene Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a time when the narrative and theoretical…